FASHIONS: Nothing Silly

The fashion show was put on with the best
of intentions. Each garment was approved beforehand by a secret
committee which agreed that it did not want anything silly or
sensational. The purpose, said the sponsoring Los Angeles Fashion Group
(mostly movie designers), was nothing so sordid as sales or headlines;
it was to "improve taste" and "help turn fashion into more channels of
sound and dignified progress [and] away from fly-by-night fads."

Thus shrewdly lured, some 1,200 store executives, buyers and fashion
writers from all over the U.S. attended the $17-a-plate champagne
supper last week at which Hollywood's "Fashion...